Modern Day Slavery (Read before taking the poll)

One of the sad facts about the 21st century is that modern day slavery still exists because of the illegal human trafficking industry. There has been a lot of debate on whether organizations should buy slaves' freedom or find other ways to free slaves since slave traders may be motivated to buy more slaves just to sell to foreign Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). People who support buying slaves' freedom cite the following reasons:

1. It is unconscionable to not free the enslaved from all the abuse that they are receiving.
2. The slaves are bought with the local currency and bought with a cap of around $50 per person.
3. Freed people are followed back to their places of origin to make sure that they're not frauds

People who are against buying slaves' freedoms (but do want to free the slaves somehow) say that:

1. According to the laws of economics, buying slaves fuels demand, only encouraging slave traders to buy more slaves, maybe even fraudulent slaves (people who are really free).
2. It is not realistic to follow every slave freed to their place of origin, and even if you could, the possibility of being misled is still apparent.
3. According to Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves "This is like paying a burglar to redeem the television set he just stole"

What do you think? Take the poll! For more info, check out http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2004032600&type=hitlist&num=0&

Human Rights Video

Hey there! There is a really good video about human right number 1 from you tube. Check it out at the bottom of this page!

Welcome!

This is the inaugural post of the UNESCO Student Ambassadors @ UConn blog. I hope that this blog will be used to share ideas and easily contact each other. It'll be like an ongoing meeting! Updates on a conference coming up in the spring will be announced. Stay tuned!